The Cousins

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The Cousins is a play in five acts by James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862)[1]

The original text

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The Cousins, or Love and Fear is a comic opera in two acts (18th century) by anonymous author (MS in the British Museum[2])

The Cousins, or A Woman's Promise and a Lover's Vow is a novel in 3 volumes by Mrs. Ross

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1871: Performed (according to Bosman, 1980, as "reminiscences of" Sheridan Knowles's The Cousins four times by the D'Arcy Read Company in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town (on 9, 11, 16 and 23 October), with The Ring and the Keeper (Wooler) and Belgravia, or Servantgolism ()

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sheridan_Knowles

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.250-251

Order of the Trustees. 1877. Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum in the year mdcccliv-mdccclxxv (1861-1875), Oxford University[3]


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